Category Archives: Holiday

JibJab teamed up with The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a special Valentine’s Day eCard featuring Stephen Bishop and The Roots performing “It Might Be You.” Here’s Jimmy to explain it… Like Mr. Fallon said, you can cast yourself and a loved one in this delightful video for FREE by going to http://www.jibjab.com/fallontine now! […]

From JibJabber Mark: Breaking news… The TODAY Show aired JibJab’s “A Christmas Rap Story” this morning, featuring all of the anchors alongside guest host John Cena! And bonus: Willie Geist mentions that his kids create a JibJab card every Christmas – it’s become an annual tradition in his house. (Which is nice.) There’s a slight delay between the […]

The HOLIDAYS are right around the corner, which means new Christmas cards from JibJab! They launched a few weeks ago, but, hey, we’ve been busy making another Christmas card (coming soon), PLUS a New Year’s card already, so this blog post is a lil’ late — but still well before Santa arrives…! A CHRISTMAS RAP STORY – […]

For Easter this year, JibJab mastermind Jeff Gill came up with the idea to cast Easter Bunnies against type as rough and tumble bikers. He handed his animatic and vision to all-around CG guru Taylor Clutter (with some initial design assistance from Josiah Haworth). Tasked with making bunnies look tough to Judas Priest’s rocking anthem “You’ve Got […]

For this St. Patrick’s Day, JibJab unleashed a stop-motion eCard “Roll Out the Barrel.” Director Jeff Gill found the song in his record collection, and created an animatic to get the barrel rolling… This was passed along to our resident stop motion animator Colin Lepper, who was kind enough to answer a few questions and […]

JibJab went and made 2015 way romantic with not one, not two, not three, but FOUR new Valentine’s Day eCards! The two big live action productions were directed by our resident lover of love Jeff Gill. First up in our fascinating BEHIND THE SCENES post is a caution-to-the-wind video set to Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s […]

This holiday season, JibJab whipped up not one, but TWO eCards! One uses cutting edge CGI technology (computers and stuff), while the other went more old school (stop motion animation). It’s the best of both worlds! First up, we’ll get hi tech with our CGI card, “Elf Fun Factory“… All of our productions start with […]

JibJab Thanksgiving eCard this year uses the rock ‘n roll classic “Surfin’ Bird” for… “Bird is the Word“! Check out some exclusive behind-the-scenes shenanigans with quotes from director/turkey Jeff Gill below…! A video like “Bird’s The Word” can’t just be shot willy nilly, so Jeff shot test footage with game JibJab artist Megan McShane in the turkey […]

It’s not too late to send your Christmas cards this year! Send your season’s greetings now — there are a whole slew to choose from: Christmas Sign Spinner Who knew Santa had such sign spinning skills? Surfing Santa Not a white Christmas? No problem! There’s Surfing Santa to celebrate the season wherever you are. Gangnam […]

When Santa’s away, the elves will twerk! The elves have been left to their own devices, and they’re making sure they end up on the Naughty List. They’ve taken over the workshop, turning it into Santa’s Twerk Shop, JibJab’s newest holiday video. Cast yourself and four friends as Santa’s twerking elves. Amazing what these elves […]

Recently, the JibJab team celebrated the closing of an awesome year, full of hundreds of brand new eCards, hilarious new dances, and plenty of delicious food. It’s been a lot of work — and it was time to commemorate all of the smiles shared! The night was off to an awesome start, thanks to our […]

Add some Latin flair into your holiday season! Check out JibJab’s take on a classic song, turning the macarena into the Macareindeer. It’s a holiday dance sensation sweeping the nation! In fact, the entire cast of Good Morning America recently got in on the craze, featuring Macareindeer during their show! Who knew they had such […]